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The South and the Caribbean: Essays and Commentaries (Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History)
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by Jr. Symposium on Southern History Chancellor Porter L. Fortune, Bonham C. Richardson, Charles Reagan Wilson, and Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez
Sales Rank: 2363536
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 208 pages
Published by: University Press of Mississippi January 2001
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1578063124
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1578063123
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 1.1 pounds
Book Description
With the trade of sugar, rum, and African slaves in the islands that form a perimeter around the Gulf of Mexico, the broad expanse of water known as the Caribbean ringed what came to be known as the South.
Today concise political boundaries separate the coasts of the American South from the multicultural worlds that dominate the islands. Yet all anecdotal evidence suggests far greater ties. One listens to the reggae in the streets of New Orleans or to the rumba in Atlanta. One notes the moans of the blues in the cafes of Veracruz and watches Major League games in which young Dominican athletes hurling lightning-fast balls become national heroes on their island homeland beset by political and economic woes.
Do these human links suggest a greater regionalism than was previously acknowledged? This exciting study of two discrete yet kindred areas gives an affirmative answer. It comes to terms with what many have considered distinct yet fluctuating boundaries that separate and bond southern peoples.
These papers from the Chancellor's Symposium at the University of Mississippi focus on and examine the strong connections. Geographer Bonham C. Richardson analyzes the territory as a cultural region "with Little Rock at the northwest corner and French Guiana at the southeast that also includes the eastern rim of Central America as well as the Bahamas." Other contributors explore the creative cultures that emerged when a brutal European economy enslaved Africans for labor. The essays also examine the economic connections that have created such dissimilar and lasting legacies as the plantation system and the love of baseball.
The South and the Caribbean flow into each other culturally, economically, and socially. These papers and their commentaries suggest that future study of these regions must deal with them together in order to understand each. The merging of the two through music, dance, language, sports, and political aspiration---all discussed in this book---serves to give birth to a New South and a New Caribbean.
Publisher Description
The first comprehensive study of the close ties between the American South and the Caribbean
With essays and commentaries by Roger D. Abrahams, Kenneth Bilby, David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman, Aline Helg, Milton Jamail, Charles Joyner, Daniel C. Littlefield, Bonham C. Richardson, and Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr.
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